In Argentina, COVID jabs propel search for ‘stolen grandchildren’

Advocates use vaccination campaign as a way to keep search for grandchildren ‘stolen’ during 1976-1983 dictatorship alive.

Buenos Aires, Argentina – As a child growing up in the city of La Plata in the 1980s, Leonardo Fossati would look in the mirror and think that reality was on the other side. It was a game the little boy played. He felt like he was living in a movie and that there was something about his own life he could not see. Years later, he would come to understand the game as much more: a manifestation among others that there was more to his story. In fact, his story was entirely different. The people who raised him were not his biological parents and a DNA test in 2005 determined that he was one of Argentina’s stolen grandchildren: babies who were born in captivity during the military dictatorship that terrorised the country from 1976 to 1983 and who were given to other families to raise.